That is possible but these teams have asked their cabs to wait before so I think it would be automatic for this part.

Here's what I am seeing: Teams were sent to catch the Powell/Hyde St cable car somewhere back by Fisherman's Wharf. Then they would have to get new taxis at the other end. Charla & Mirna are seen on foot/wheelies in front of the San Francisco Shopping Center on Market St. That is directly across the street from the terminus of the Powell/Hyde ride. And, conveniently, it is fairly close to the Mint too.

It's an interesting topic. I haven't considered the idea of a missing SF task. I went back to the video and I can't find/see anyone mouthing the words "old mint" to the taxi drivers. And back in Lanai, there is a cutaway after each team reads "make your way to the final destination city..."This cap, presumably before the old mint, shows cabs passing the DMV, which is actually on the way to the park. Probably just editing, though.

Let me mention something that has bothered me. My analysis of timing had Eric/ Danielle arriving at the mat at 815am. Chateau's analysis shows them there at 903am or slightly later. This supports the "missing task in SF" hypothesis. I could be wrong by about 48 minutes due to having to wait for the camera/sound crew to get off the airplane and set up (I assumed a new crew took over), but even that is unlikely to have taken half that time.

A further issue is that Mirna/Charla complaining about their Oakland airport taxi driver not knowing San Francisco does not ring true. My guess is that virtually all OAK cabbies know downtown San Francisco qutie well as many of their fares go there. I think it is likely that a "missing task" might have accounted for the 15 minute late arrival that Mirna/Charla had at the Old Mint. Any walking task would put them at a big disadvantage. Charla's wheelies would not be very effective up hills and they would be unsafe down hills.

Another thing that bothers me is why Charla/Mirna had to do significant repositioning to find the entrance to Strybing Arboretum, as shown in one of the Insider clips. Did their second cab driver screw up that badly in taking them there that they were on the wrong side to get in?

It's so nice to know that TAR editors have shielded us from all this EXTRANEOUS information that had NOTHING to do with the finish of TAR11! This used to be a show where you could trust that you were getting the straight story on TV, but those days are long gone.

I've got a new theory on why the teams took an extra 30 to 45 minutes to arrive at the Old Mint.

It is because they had to do the task over. I think there was a technical difficulty with the the way the task was set up.

I'll just speculate that it was Mirna who called them on the problem!

Here's what I think really happened: The BQs and E&D arrived at about the same time and began the task. Both teams were unable to match their codes and clocked out at the 10 minute marks. They got their final clues and headed out for the Botanical Garden in the same taxis that brought them to the mint. Meanwhile, Charla & Mirna arrived (maybe even overlapped a little) and they started the task. But after ten minutes they were also clocked out. Mirna figures out that the reason (or at least an arguable reason) why they could not match the code was because production had indicated the number "10" for the BQs on their list of teams (see the smudged out "1" to leave just "0"). She raises hell about it and production decides to reel back the other teams for a redo. Just like they did with Season 9's flags. Eric, you are cursed.

Some supporting evidence for my theory is that shot of Eric & Danielle's taxi through Dustin & Kandice taken along Fell St near Masonic. That location is on the way from the Mint to the Botanical Garden. And in the shot, the BQs are in their original taxi that they got from the airport. The reason this is special is that in the version that was aired we have the BQs leaving 6 min or so after D&E. And we see them have to go across Market St to fetch a new taxi (yellow SUV style) from in front of Renaissance Park 55 Hotel. You can see the difference between the two taxis by the shapes of the windows and the stickers in the windows. So how else could they have ever had a shot of the two teams together in their original taxis over by the Botanical Garden? And for the task redo, maybe production had alternate sets of questions that could be substituted if there was any problems.

This shot in Charla & Mirna's taxi (when they bumped their heads on the ceiling) was taken here on Oak St going east from the Botanical Gardens BACK to the Old Mint. You can see two tall buildings in the distance that match perfectly with Google Earth's tilt view with 3D buildings turned on. The building that is straight ahead and rotated wrt Oak St stands out clearly. This only can be seen in one place in San Francisco. This view is unique to this exact spot.

At this point, I believe, Charla & Mirna are headed back to the Mint in their 2nd taxi after being told by production that they have to go back to do the task again.

And then it was a matter of being at the taxi stands to get the best taxi, and unfortunately our taxi driver had no idea where anything in San Francisco was. He also didn't have a working telephone, so it put us at a disadvantage. It was a little bit of an unlucky situation having to change taxis three times that day. So it really I think shows it a little differently than it truly was. We arrived at [Old Mint, the site of the All-Stars' final challenge] just as [All-Stars' winning duo of Eric Sanchez and Danielle Turner] were finishing up.

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